Archive for Range Management

Beep! Ding! Buzz! The noises and alerts that come from a cell phone can absolutely dominate your day. Answering calls, emails, texts, social media alerts, and on and on… the happenings around you can come and go while you are […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Setting the stocking rate is one of the most important decisions ranchers or land managers make. By Kris Ringwall, Beef Specialist, NDSU Extension Cattle are in the pasture, but how many should be there? The answer to that question is […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Focus of the two-day event is on adapting grazing management for future needs MANHATTAN, KAN – Great Plains Grazing will host “Adapting Grazing Management for Future Needs”, a conference aimed for beef cattle producers across Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. The […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

By Bethany Johnston, Nebraska Extension Educator The Sandhills have a “new” invasive weed- absinth wormwood. This weed is on Colorado, North Dakota, and South Dakota’s noxious weed list. However, absinth wormwood was absent in Nebraska until a few years ago. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

By Brad Schick, Nebraska Extension Educator Grazing summer annual grasses is a great way to add flexibility to an operation, but in order to make it worth your time and money some management decisions are required. Your goals and your […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Michelle Arnold, DVM (Ruminant Extension Veterinarian, UKVDL), University of Kentucky Anaplasma marginale is an organism that lives in red blood cells and causes the only major “tick-borne” disease in the US affecting cattle production. Although ticks are important for this […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Severely tight hay reserves will undoubtedly cause many farmers to aggressively put up hay this spring. When the weather is right and hay fields are mowed there will be many farmers looking over the fence at pastures as an opportunity […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Concentrate feeds can be a cost-effective option under certain conditions MANHATTAN, Kan. – In years when hay and forage production is low due to drought, hay prices often escalate, and in severe cases, forage of any kind may be hard […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Christine Gelley, OSU Extension Agriculture and Natural Resources Educator, Noble County (originally published in The Ohio Farmer on-line) While we may all agree having clover in the pasture mix is good, occasionally they may need to be sacrificed for the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Cattle grazing is not simply opening a gate and herding a group of cows into the pasture. By Kris Ringwall, Beef Specialist, NDSU Extension Pastures and cattle seem synonymous, co-dependent. Pasturing is a product of domestication, the need to keep […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

By Mike Trammell, Senior Plant Breeder A major goal of the Noble Research Institute’s plant breeding program has been to develop a perennial cool-season forage that could provide producers an alternative to planting winter annuals, such as wheat or cereal rye, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Make sure cows are in good condition so they can rebreed. By Kris Ringwall, Beef Specialist NDSU Extension Are the cows ready to breed, and will 60 percent conceive a calf within 21 days following bull turnout? In reality, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

By Bethany Johnston, Nebraska Extension Educator, Beef Systems The last year has been difficult to manage for pasture health and production. First, some rangelands are recovering from poor precipitation received during last year’s growing season. Now, cool weather this spring […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Research suggests benefits of pasture burning in August or September MANHATTAN, Kan. – Uncommonly blue skies prevailed across much of eastern Kansas this April. In most years, springtime means smoke from prescribed burning of pastures and rangeland, but not in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

By Jerry Volesky, UNL Range and Forage Specialist and Mitch Stephenson, UNL Range Management Specialist The start of the growing season will be here soon and it is time to finish up grazing and forage plans for the upcoming year. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

By Jace Stott, Nebraska Extension Educator A common conversation I have with producers usually goes something like this, “I’m renting out 50 acres to my neighbor who wants to run 30 cows on it, does that sound about right to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

By Bruce Anderson, NE Extension Forage Specialist Do you rent pasture? What happens if drought lowers pasture production below expectations? Specifically, what does your pasture lease say about drought? It’s hard to think about drought in mid-winter but drought can […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Weeds in warm-season pastures can be an annual battle, and producers should prepare their spray equipment to win the war, said a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert. Sprayer calibration is an important part of pasture management. Producers should check […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…